This is my first post on this forum.
I discovered puppy while playing around with network booting,
and since puppy in its base consists of only 2 or 3 files (vmlinuz, image.gz, (usr_cram.fs)) i treid to use these files as my network boot images.

describtion of my configuration:

server side:
1. dhcp server:
gives client an ip,gateway,dns, tftp-server-ip and the initial image to load from the tftp-server (in my case this is nbgrub)

2. tftp server:
hosts all needed files for the client to boot.
(in my case these are: nbgrub+grub.conf, vmlinuz (taken from puppy) and image.gz (also taken from puppy) )

Note: i dont use an NFS server to mount the rootfs remotely
(the whole rootfs is contained in image.gz (which the kernel will use as its initrd). therefore everything will be loaded into clients ram.

This configuration works fine.
The only problem is that i had to use an old version of puppy (i think 0.9.2), because in the newer versions usr_cram.fs is not included inside image.gz any more which is needed for my netboot setup.

So what i wanted to ask the forum is:
is it possible to get a new puppy version (perhaps including firefox)
which includes usr_cram.fs inside image.gz?
Or perhaps someone can instruct me on how this can be done manually?

meanwhile i discovered "puppy unleashed",
which does exactly what i need !

with it i created vmlinuz + image.gz (including usr_cram.fs)
i was able to boot them over the network right away (had to pass larger ramdisk_size option to kernel)

last but not least i would like to say that i am really impressed by puppy (especially by its simplicity).
i think i will spend some free time to discover the "internals" of puppy.
Perhaps someone has some hints, howtos, docs, ... (for creating packages, compiling costum kernel, ...) ?

Yeah, and I'll be uploading the config file for the 2.4.29 kernel soon, and the ntfs and squashfs patches for the source.
-- 2.4.29 is used in the upcoming Pup 1.0.4.
-- I compiled it on Vector Linux 5.0STD beta, but it could be compiled on some other distro.

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